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Re: [xml2rfc] assuming that period (.) ends a sentence is sometimes wrong

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Sun, 28 February 2021 18:56 UTC

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Subject: Re: [xml2rfc] assuming that period (.) ends a sentence is sometimes wrong
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Am 28.02.2021 um 19:49 schrieb Julian Reschke:
> Am 28.02.2021 um 18:59 schrieb Nico Williams:
>> On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 12:54:45PM -0500, John R Levine wrote:
>>>> Provided it doesn't also lose alternative Unicode whitespace
>>>> characters,
>>>> using &emsp; is an option.  In a pinch we could have an element to mark
>>>> the end of a sentence (<s/>).
>>>
>>> At the end of every sentence?  That's, uh, quite a stretch.  Are we sure
>>> this problem is worth that much effort by every author?
>>
>> If some such markup were only needed when the sentence-ending-period
>> heuristic would fail, then its usage would be very rare.  Maybe
>> non-breaking spacing could be used for that?
>
> Nope.
>
> Please let's not leak "optimizations" for text output into the canonical
> format.
>
> Assuming we continue with that 2SP practice (in contrast to what 7322bis
> says): there are other alternatives, such as a config file to be
> supplied to xml2rfc which continues known exception strings.


s/continues/contains/

BR, Julian

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